Happy Friday! We’re pushing a patch today (view full notes here) that addresses many of the matchmaking issues taking place in Factions mode for The Last of Us Remastered. You should see improved matchmaking all around. It will be rolling out over the next twenty-four hours globally. Look for the update when you turn on your system today.

With that patch, as promised, we’re giving away two, brand new multiplayer maps for FREE. The first map is the Beach, an excellent map for long-range experts. The second map is Financial Plaza, which is ideal for both sniping and close quarters combat. The maps will be free for both PS3 and PS4 players. Check out these maps in our latest trailer:

Once we’ve deployed the maps, upon signing into Factions multiplayer, the store will pop up and you’ll be asked to download them for free. Here are the screens you should see:

If you’re super excited and want to see how quickly you can get back to playing Factions, the Maps for PS4 are roughly 291MB and the patch is about 137MB. For PS3, patch 1.09 will be approximately 170MB and the same maps are about 143MB.

Also newly available is our Scoped Weapons Bundle which can be purchased on the PlayStation®Store for $2.99 right now. The four new weapons in the bundle are sold individually for $0.99 if you’re more selective about your guns. All weapons are available for The Last of Us on BOTH the PS3 and PS4.

Enjoy the free maps and get geared up with some new weapons and any of our many other The Last of Us Add-Ons such as the Ultimate Head Item Pack - which includes every head item we’ve made to date! Be sure to give us your feedback about the patch and new Add-Ons. Thank you for all the information you’ve given us so far. See you online!

Your pay to win microtransactions are making me sick to my stomach. Already regret giving naughty dog my business. Thanks for the early warning on uncharted, Its easy to see where your business model is going lol

Thanks for the maps, I’m looking forward to playing in them. It be great if at some point you guys released a bundle including every Mask, Hat, Helmet, Gesture and Weapon that the season pass didn’t cover. I personally wanted to play with the Samurai Helmet but it seems to only be available with the “Ultimate Head Item Pack” and I don’t see the point in expending $30 to get 1 item when I have most of the items that come in said bundle.

I’m loving the new maps. It’s definitely bringing back nostalgia from single player and they’re beautifully done. My only issue with this latest update is that in the hour that I’ve played the game, I’ve had 3 different party members who have had their PS3 freeze. Mine also froze on 3 separate occasions within an hour. It didn’t used to do this before. :(

I can’t get it done, every time I try to download the maps, it tells me “This service is currently on undergoing maintenance” or something like that. Did you really have to do this thing where you must download these * up maps in order to connect to factions???

I bought the last of us second time on ps4 to play factions. There were some problems in the beginning with the matchmaking, which i have forgiven you for. But now you give us free maps as an apology. That is great. The problem is i cant download the maps, which means i cant play factions. That is frustrating. When i press ok to download the maps, a message pops up saying THIS CONTENT CANNOT BE SELECTED AT THIS TIME. I bought some hats on psn, which i cannot access either and the same message pops up. Please fix this ND

God damn it ND, i cant download the maps on the game itself and i even cant play Factions, so what now i have to wait for monday when they are gona be working?
Is there any other way i can get the maps like from PSN or something

For those who can’t download the map I had the same problem and fixed it.All what you have to do is to log in with another User account that have the same region as the Disc you own for example if the disc is region 1 you have to login by an American account and if 2 a european account . Then open the game from that account and try opening factions it will direct you to the download page then after it begin downloading switch to your account again and when the download finishes the Factions will be opened normally again with the new maps installed